How to write a country song

Subject: RE: How to write a country song
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 May 11 - 01:50 AM

There's a great line in a song of Juneau's Buddy Tabor (he doesn't usuallyd do country):

Well, you say you don't like these country songs
But you'll change your mind when you're divorced
And she's gone.

Subject: RE: How to write a country song
From: GUEST,wordfella
Date: 25 May 11 - 08:41 AM

<"three chords and the truth" (said by someone whose name escapes me)>

Not Willie Nelson. Harlan Howard.

Subject: RE: How to write a country song
From: GUEST,Clay T.
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:47 AM

It's the 21st century people. Stop listening to trucker ballads from the 60's...Geez

Subject: RE: How to write a country song
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:17 AM

Why?
The crap that passes for country music these days gives me a headache.